Physical education teachers who earn their bachelor's degree at Slippery Rock are equipped with fundamental leadership and administrative skills. The program is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education in Physical Education.

The School Wellness Education program is based on the following seven components of living well:

• Physical (activity and movement);
• Fueling your body (nutrition);
• Social and emotional wellness (strategies for managing stress, anxiety and depression);
• The human body (muscles, bones and organs);
• The human body response (benefits of wellness or consequences for lack of);
• Health-related fitness (training principles); and
• Injury prevention and wellness (self, others and environment).